"In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?"

-- Al Gore

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“What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.”
“I look a lot like my father and his mother.”
“...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.”
“Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry: Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.108, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
“Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.”

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